Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klęti

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Perhaps, related to *kloniti.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

*klęti

1. to swear
2. to curse

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: клясці́ (kljascí)
  • Russian: клясть (kljastʹ)
  • Ukrainian: кля́сти́ (kljástý)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: клѧти (klęti)

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⱔⱅⰻ (klęti)

  • Bulgarian: кълна́ (kǎlná)
  • Macedonian: колне (kolne)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кле̑ти

    Latin script: klȇti

  • Slovene: kléti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kléti
    • Czech: klít
  • Polabian: klanĕ (3sg.)
  • Old Polish: kląć
    • Polish: kląć
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: кляц (kljac)
    • Slovak: kliať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kleć
    • Lower Sorbian: klěś

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кълна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 191